Banned in some schools, required reading in others, V.C. Andrews's youth-in-crisis novel Flowers in the Attic is now a Lifetime movie - and it's still as shocking and creepy as when it first entered the zeitgeist in 1979. Heather Graham stars as Corrine Dollanganger, a picture-perfect housewife and mother of four who is suddenly widowed and must take her brood to live with her parents in the elegant mansion where she grew up. Corrine's dying father can't know she has kids - she scandalized the family by marrying her uncle - so her offspring must stay hidden in the attic until Grandpa kicks the bucket. The children's imprisonment stretches from weeks to months, then a couple of years, by which point the two eldest kids, Cathy (Mad Men's Kiernan Shipka) and Chris (Mason Dye), have fallen in love and are engaged in a sexual relationship and Corrine has become as crazy as her Bible-thumping mother, Olivia (Oscar winner Ellen Burstyn).
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